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...Chance is almost too delicious a novel to take seriously, to read any other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...
...Since interstate gas is priced at either 29.5? per thousand cu. ft. (for gas discovered before 1973) or 52? (for "new" gas discovered since then), producers are inclined to sell their gas within the state in which it was found. To make interstate sales more profitable-and dampen consumption at the same time-the FPC lifted the price of new gas to $1.01 per thousand cu. ft. for gas found in 1973 and 1974 and $1.42 for gas newer than that. To encourage gas companies to shift their production to the interstate market, the commission added that any intrastate...
Still, most economists forecast that inflation by year's end will be running at about 5% to 6%. Such a rate would be modest by the standards of recent years arid would not greatly dampen consumer optimism, especially if the current expansion in personal income continues to put more money in buyers' pockets. Already the rise in consumer installment credit for the first three months of the year ($3.9 billion) tops the increase for all of 1975 ($3.7 billion...
...some degree, the Senate has attempted to dampen Common Cause criticism by regulating the content of newsletters and other large franked mailings. Until this year, the Senate regulations were so loose that an occasional proliferation of blatantly election-oriented newsletters was not uncommon. A close examination of Senate newsletters issued in the last year show a wide variety of styles and content, ranging from self-serving puffery to informative discussions of issues with a fair presentation of contrasting views. The style often has reflected each senator's self-perception--whether he views himself chiefly as a public "educator...
...ventilated section by section as the teams painstakingly made their way to the victims. The day before the blast, the mine had been cited for three violations of federal ventilation laws-and only two of the violations had been corrected. But 11 of 36 sprinklers used to dampen inflammable coal dust were not operating. There is no indication, however, that this was in any way connected with the explosion. Nor do officials know how the fatal quantity of methane gathered in the passageway-or what ignited...